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Ocean Quotes by Herman Melville
- This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I…
- For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy,…
- No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean…
- At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern…
- When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember…
- Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this…
- The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that…
More Ocean Quotes
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans… — Robert Ballard
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather… — Drew Barrymore
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston
- I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales. — Mayim Bialik
- Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. — Ambrose Bierce
- All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries… — Elizabeth Bishop
- Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a… — H. P. Blavatsky
- There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken… — Heston Blumenthal
- The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the… — Bono